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Well atleast I'm only about 4 days out of date. I would also try to stay
away from buying motherboard with intel chipsets (BX is great, but avoid
most others) due to Intels stupidity in supporting RDRAM.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shu-Yung James Wu" <ranma@umich.edu>
To: <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: TI-H: Re: DFI Mothers and AMD´s
>
> Outdated information. the Thuderbird 1 GHZ with on die cache went on sale
> June 5th for 990$. Actually all the Thruderbirds are out from 750-1000. I
> hear the 800 can actually outperform an old 1 GHZ athlon in some tests.
Also
> for a limited time, Slot A thunderbirds will be availible.
>
> > Out of my 5 PCs, 3 have AMD CPUs. 2 Athlons (800 & 600), K6/2 450,
Celeron
> > 466, and a Dual Pentium Pro 200. If you are waiting for the Gig CPUs to
> come
> > . The Athlon gig doesn't do much better than an 800 because of the
> external
> > cache, and the PIII gig requires an $80+ heat removal system that
requires
> > some case modification (part of it sits outside the case). On top of all
> of
> > that Intel has yet to ship its 1 Ghz PIII. If money was tight I would
buy
> an
> > AMD Duron (aka Spitfire) (600 Mhz for under $100) and a Socket A
> > motherboard, which could later be upgraded to a Thunderbird Athlon. As
for
> > the cdrw vs. zip, zip is widely supported but not as supported as cds.
>
>
>
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